Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1993, Steve Benson has been a lightning rod for more than 20 years as the staff editorial cartoonist for The Arizona Republic. Benson sums up his career best: "I don’t aim to please. I just aim."
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Orthodox Catholic said, 3 months ago
No doubt. Fighting the Liberals in the Church who don’t believe a word of it, cleaning out the molesters, trying to rid the Church of liturgical abuses, wondering who may be plotting against you….that would wear out a much younger man!
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Goodbye and God bless you, Holy Father!!! We love you!!!
masterskrain said, 3 months ago
Now, if we could just get more members of "Con"gress to think this same way…8 years, and you are out of there!
Chillbilly
said, 3 months ago
No we don’t love you.
You covered up and protected child molesters. You denied the astounding extent of homosexuality among your priests while simultaneously condemning gay people everywhere.
The church doesn’t need to be liberalized. It needs to go away and it will, because people don’t want to be associated with an institution that condemns its private actions in such a public way.
Good riddance. Let’s see which scoundrel takes your place.
Simon_Jester said, 3 months ago
I would think Steve Benson, of all people, would be applauding the Pope’s decision to step down.
His own break with the Church of the Latter Day Saints came when his grandfather, Ezra Taft Benson refused to give up his position as Leader of the Mormom Church, despite being too ‘pooped to Prophet’ ( suffering from Alzheimers. )
I was there, in Arizona at the time, and heard him talking about it iwith local radio host, Pat McMahon.
David
said, 3 months ago
@Chillbilly
I wish that were true. Look at how many republicans there still are to know the church will be around for a long while still…
The Wolf In Your Midst said, 3 months ago
@ScottPM
Why don’t they just leave me alone, instead of pressuring my government to force me to live by the very rules they themselves ignore?
Omnius said, 3 months ago
The catholic church is the most corrupt institution in human history run by the most corrupt men in history. Good riddance to the pedophile pervert protector pope-a-dope, sad there will be another corrupt pedophile pervert protector pope-a-dope.
motivemagus said, 3 months ago
@Simon_Jester
He might BE applauding it, Simon, though he couldn’t resist a cheap pun. C’mon, he’s a cartoonist!
I’ve read Benson’s background, and I know that seeing his grandfather being propped up helped move him away from Mormonism — I am just not sure that his grandfather refused to step down or if he simply lost it and was then manipulated by those around him.
Nancy
said, 3 months ago
Gee @Omnius, You are really angry with the Catholic Church, but what about the Evangelicals who are also corrupt, take money and live in lavish mansions?
In my state the pages are full of Baptist pedophiles and church embezzlement.
sclark55
said, 3 months ago
Bad timing for this ‘toon – right after seeing Li’l Poopy on O’Reilly last night… (the 9-yr old rapper)
motivemagus said, 3 months ago
@Sharuniboy
Worse even than that. (I’m from Boston.) Cardinal Law, a man who clearly had ambitions to be the first American Pope, was moved out of Boston to Rome explicitly to escape (ironically) the law. He has never returned, and never will.
Orthodox Catholic said, 3 months ago
@Chillbilly
Do some reading. Cardinal Ratzinger had nothing to do with the cover up. When it was discovered, he was the one put in charge of cleaning the mess up.
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The molestations took place almost 25 years ago. In the last year there have been a handful of accusations (some quite false by people looking to make a buck) out of a number of priests over 40,000.
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The NEA has a much higher rate of child abuse, and teachers are rountinely transferred to other districts when found out. Are you also wanting the NEA to close its doors?
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What did the Church do to you personally that you are filled with such venom? You take the failure of a few men out of thousands of faithful and you state that this failure represents the Church. That is dishonest to the core.
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Do you want to see the Church? Come visit me and I will take you to see the hungry fed, the poor cared for, the sick visited, and women with crisis pregnancies cared for. That is the Church, not the moral failures of a few of its leaders.
Orthodox Catholic said, 3 months ago
@The Wolf In Your Midst
Wrong, sir. Show me the law that the Church supported that said that they had the right to go into your house, your bedroom, and tell you what to do. You have the right to live your life as you please. You will also have the right to suffer the consequences of those choices.
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What the Church wants is that the government not tell us what is and what is not moral behavior. We have every right to follow our conscience in this regard and no one in the Catholic Church will come into your bedroom and beat you with a Rosary for your right to make your own choices.
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We will, however, continue to preach that certain choices are sinful and evil. Perhaps that is what is bugging you, that we refuse to shut up in regards to pointing out what is evil behavior.
Kylie2112 said, 3 months ago
Good riddance.
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By the way, I say we tax religious institutions rather than raise taxes on regular people (even those earning a few hundred grand a year). If you want to ride the rides, you gotta pay the price of admission.
ralphewest said, 3 months ago
Hello all you bible scholars out there…..remember Moses being so old they had to hold his arms up so that the Israelites would prevail? Hmmm, lets see, how old was Adam when he died? Nine hundred and something. And Noah was 600 years old when he undertook saving the human race. Maybe we should thank those who are brave enough to put themselves in the public light and give up their privacy. Anybody out there willing to be Pope if it was offered to you? Remember, you would have to give up everything you own and live in a cold, dark, ancient building and be criticized for your every comment.